River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-29

lnal carelessness of the act.
AT the sham battle, at the Minnesota
State Fair grounds George d. Knox, a
member of Purvic post, Hamilton, was
accidentally wounded by the powder dis
charged from a musket when in close
proximity to his face. de was taken 20 the
st. Joseph's hospital, st. Paul, where he has
since received the best of care. Ii is
probable that he may lose the sight Of one
or both eyes. Mr.. Knox is in needy circum-
stances and has a wife and child in Fillmore
county who cannot visit him owing to want
of means. Secretary of State Matison has
taken an interest in the matter and will
see what the state fair managers and q. A.
r. boys are ready 20 do for a needy
comrade, and all others who feel so dis
posed can send any contribution to Mr..
Mattson.
The fourth biennial reunion of
Crocker's Iowa Brigade was held at Daven-
port Nearly all the men of public note in
Iowa were present. There was a fine street
parade, the regiments carrying war worn
battle flags and state banners Council
Bluffs was selected as the next place of
meeting, the third Wednesday and Thurs
day in September, 1889. The following
officers We're elected: President Gen VIII
liam w. Belknap; vice president, ). s.
Lyle, Eleventh regiment; g. III. Ragsdale,
Thirteenth; Benjamin johnson, Fifteenth /;
Peter Kiene, Jr., Sixteenth; recording
secretary, Capt j. M. Munroe, MuscAtine I;
corresponding secretary, Col. Ii. h. Rood,
Mt. Vernon. treasurer, Corporal Peter
Kiene, Jr., Dubuque.
Ortonville, Mimi, has provided for
the issuance of water works bonds to the
amount of 81, 600 and it is expected the city
will be abundantly provided with fire pro
lection before snow flies Work will be
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60 days The tank system has been adopted,
and 20,000-barrel tank will be erected on
the high ground near the court house,
which will give a head of 10000 feet, which
experts say viii provide ample fire protec-
ton. This will reduce insurance from TO
3 per cent.
The North Dakota Fair at Grand
Forks was full of interest and very success
ful. Among the features of the last day
was the marriage in the judges stand OF
e. ID. Vernon, of Mimic, and Mrs. Frances
Ashton, of Grand Forks, Mayor b. M.
Holmes performed the ceremony. Many
costly presents besides the $50 prize were
given, after which every director kissed the
bride as they passed out The affair
created quite an amusement Next was the
| five mile running race between Miss Eccles,
of Mortified, and Miss Poole, of Mouse
| River, for $50. The race was won by Miss
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between the same ladies has been arranged
/ for Devils Lake.
In response to an order received
from the general land Office authorizing
him to open TO settlement under the general
land laws all lands in the Fergus
| Falls, Mimi, district within the indemnity
\ limits of the grant TO the Northern Pacific
| Railway Company heretofore withdrawn
for the benefit of said company, Register
COwing of the Fergus Falls land office, an
nounces that filing will be received on and
after Dec. |. In the district covered by the
Fergus Falls land office frCm $4,000 to 10000
acres will be opened to settlement This
entire acreage is in Otter Tail and Douglas
counties. The larger part of it is ia Otter
Tail county, probably $4,000 acres
The crop report published by thi;
weeks Farmers Review, of Chicago. has
the following: Observation-Disclosures from
fourteen counties estimate the yield of corr
! at 33 bushels per acre; oats, 81 bushels; pc
| tatoes, 80 bushels. Scarcely any corn OF
hand. Minnesota-Nine counties report
the estimated yield of corn at 81 bushels
per acre spring wheat 81 bushels; oats 81
ports from Fl counties estimate the yield Of
corn at 3215 bushels per acre; spring wheat
l0lS bushels; oats, 81 bushels, potatoes Al
bushels; per cent of old corn on hand, q 2-3
Two counties report failure in potatoes
and two in spring wheat.
Dennis n. O'Brien, formerly of Owa
tonna, Mimi, was murdered at Maiden
Mont, on the 18th inst. Mr.. O'Brien wa
the son of Mr. James O'Brien, who former
ly lived in Blooming Prairie. His mothe
| is now a resident of Owatonna. IL SEEM
| that Mr.. O'Brien had a claim in the Flor
ence mine. he went to the mine to carry
| n lunch h p
was shot by man named Burgess and in
stantly killed. Burgess formerly owned
an interest in the mine, which had beer
purchased by Mr.. O'Brien at a sheriff sale
and this is supposed to have been the caus,
of the murder.
j, w. Cottell, who was Iowa's Audi
tor of State from 1859 to 1854, and after
ward appointed to the same office by Gov
Sherman when he forcibly expelled Auditor
| Brown from his office with the militia il
1885, died at his home near Des Moines
from the effects of an accident. Mr.. Cottel
was watering his horses, when they started
and in attempting to stop them he wai
thrown down and the heavily loaded Wagon
passed over his hip. The injury at first wai
not supposed to be dangerous, but later his
condition became alarming and he died
Mr.. Cottell was sixtyseven years of age.
A Binghamton, Oak, special report,
two fatal accidents at that place. J. L
Davis a school teacher. while handling hi,
gun accidentally discharged it, A Lad
named johnson, son of a farmer, about
nine years old, standing by, received the
charge in his forehead, blowing the whole
top of head Off and killing him instantly
Davis is almost insane with grief, although
no blame attaches 70 him. A girl fourteen
years old, daughter of Farmer Patterson
was toying with revolver, which went off
producing wound from which she died in
four hours.
Alexandria. Mimi. Is hereaved in
the death of Judge VIM. McAboy, who was
born in Virginia in 1909. Judge McAboy
| was appointed by the.general government to
the Leech Lake Indian reservation without
bonds in 1855, just after he arrived at st
| Paul. He laid out the present town site in
| 1886 and came TO Alexandria in 1871, was
| judge in tho probate court in 1889, when
| he was attacked with a stroke of paralysis
He departs lamented respected and revered.
Young Charles Netterfield a native
ofHudson, Wis, who stole a horse in st.
Paul from w. ID. Andrews, at the Dayton
| Bluff livery stable, was captured by Sheriff
| Campbell and James X. Kelly. The reward
offered 500, tempted many to follow, but
| with no success. The young man was
| taken to St Paul where he entered a plea of
| guilty. Netterfeld was found sleeping in a
barn near Diamond Bluff, and had in his
possession a pistol and large knife The
horse was found the day before by James
| X. Kelly. Netterfield has been a wild boy,
having been la the reform school and
served a term of years in the regular army
at Fl Smelling.
AT Arlington, Mimi, w. NJ. Fuerst-
now, aged 70, was found hanging by the
neck to the rafters of his room, suspended
| 10y two thicknesses of binding Irvine The
body, when found was cold. The rope
! having stretched. he was standing fiat
| feet from the Irvine, from which he must
have swung himself off gently to avoid
breaking it. The moose used was formed
| by Irvine passing through an old buckle.
New Richmond, Wis, had accidents
on each of its railroads. At the Omaha
| freight yards boy had foot taken off by
the cars while switching. The westward
| bound passenger train on the Wisconsin
| Central found the body of a man ON the
| track one mile west of the city. He had
evidently been killed by a freight train
during the night. His name was Thos. Huff,
laborer in Burvold's brick yard.
JAS III. Scott, a Scandinavian laborer
of st. Paul, Mimi, with wife and three
children, was fatally shot in the groin, by
his friend Cool Olson, to whom Scott was
showing self-acting revolver he had pur
\ chased. In Olsol S untutored hand the gun
went off giving Scott a mortal wound.
The diving man made a statement under
oath that the shooting was purely acct
dental.
Fully one hundred cars of ore were